Engineering Insights
Real problems. Engineering-first thinking. No product pitches. Written for developers, architects, and security engineers who care about what actually leaves their applications.
Logging more doesn't mean knowing more. Here's what it actually costs.
Over-logging is one of the most common and least-discussed engineering inefficiencies. It inflates bills, degrades signal quality, and creates compliance exposure — often without anyone noticing until it's expensive.
Regex rules and sink filters seem like the right answer. They aren't.
Log redaction pipelines work in small teams and simple systems. Here's what breaks as you add developers, services, and regulatory scope — and why the failure is structural, not operational.
It's a governance problem — and the two require very different solutions.
Most teams treat PII leaking into logs as a configuration issue. It isn't. It's an architectural one. Here's why the standard fixes keep failing, and what actually works.